Slide-spout portable oil measure



Fatented Nov. 13, 1924.

HENRY G. OUIMET, O'F WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

SLIDE-SPOUT PORTABLE O'IL MEASURE.

Appflication filed March 5, 1923.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY Gnonen OUI- mm, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Slide-Spout Portable Oil Measures; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

;Fig. 1 a front View of an oil measure constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 a broken side view of the same.

Fig. 3 a broken, sectional view of the lower part of the container and the upper part of the spout, showing the spout in its depressed position.

Fig. 4 a sectional view on the line 44 of Fi g. 3.

This invention relates to improvements in oil measures, and particularly to measures adapted for measuring and delivering oil to somewhat inaccessible places, the object being to provide a measure to contain oil and sliding spout which may be projected below the measure, so as to conveniently deliver the oil without difficulty to somewhat inaccessible points, the device being particularly adapted for supplying oil to motor engines, and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a container 5, preferably provided at its upper end with an inwardly-curved flange 6. At one side, near the lower end, is a discharge-opening 7 joining a tubular housing 8 secured to the container. Extending through this housing is a tubular spout 9, adapted to move vertically through the housing and through stuffing-boxes l and 11 at the upper and lower ends of the housing, so as to form a close fit. This tubular spout is open at its lower end and preferably closed by a cap 12 at its upper end. In this tube, near the upper end, are a series of vertical slots 13, adapted to register with the discharge-opening 7 when the tube is forced downward, its downward movement being limited by a stop-ring 14 arranged in Serial No. 622,796.

an annular groove 15 in the spout, the ring being adapted to bear upon the stufling boxes 10. Hinged to one side of the housing is a cover 16, normally forced against the bottom of the spout so as to close the same by a spring 17, the spring yielding as the spout is forced downward. In the normal position, the spout is drawn upward, so as to close the discharge-opening 7 and oil is placed in the container. When it is desired to empty the container, the tube 9 is forced downward, so that the slots 13 register with the discharge-opening 7, and so that the contents of the container will pass through those slots and down through the spout. In case the container contains more oil than is necessary to be discharged at a certain time, the flow of oil may be at once cut off by raising the tube to a sufficientextent to move the slots 13 above the housing. IVhen the tube is drawn up to its fullest extent, the cap 16 will close the lower end, so that any oil remaining in the tube will not escape, this cap acting as a dripguard.

I claim:

1. In an oil measure, the combination with a container formed with a discharge-opening at one side near the bottom, a housing secured to the container around said discharge-opening, stuffing-boxes at the upper and lower ends of said housing, a tubular spout vertically-movable through said housing and formed near its upper end with openings adapted to register with the discharge-opening of the container, and means for limiting the downward movement of the spout.

2. In an oil measure, the combination with a container having a discharge-opening at one side near the bottom, a tubular housing secured to the said container around said discharge-opening, a vertically-movablc tubular spout mounted in said housing, and a cap hinged to said housing and adapted to close the lower end of the spout when it is in its raised position.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY Gr. OUIMET. Witnesses:

A. C. NOLAN, G. M. GERARDI. 

